Application Attacks

Application attacks are a category of cyber threats that exploit vulnerabilities in software applications, targeting weaknesses in design, development, and implementation. These attacks aim to compromise data, breach user privacy, and disrupt functionality. There are six prominent types of application attacks, as described in the sub-sections that follow.

Injection Attack

An injection attack involves the malicious insertion of untrusted data into application inputs, exploiting flaws that allow the execution of unintended commands. Common forms of this type of attack include SQL injection (where malicious SQL statements are injected) and XSS, which embeds malicious scripts into web applications. An example of SQL injection can be found under the Web-Based Vulnerabilities section in Chapter 7, Explain various types of vulnerabilities. XSS was just covered in this chapter in the preceding Malicious Code section.

Reminder

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